If thieves break into your house and steal your valuables while you are away, that’s one thing; if they back up a moving truck in the middle of the day and start loading up your furniture while you are home, that’s quite another.  In the first case, you can be excused if they get away with it.  In the second, we have to ask Clint Eastwood’s question, “You gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed?”

Some lies are so bald-faced, so audacious, that for a moment, we can’t believe it would be told. It catches us off guard. We think that it must be true because nobody would push such a blatant lie. The Presidential election of 2020 amounts to the Democrats saying, “yeah, we cheated: what are you going to do about it?”

But to make our case, we should consider the options in the aftermath of this election.  Assuming Biden won the election, he either won legitimately, or he cheated.  If he cheated, he either gets away with it, or he doesn’t.  These are our only options. 

Let’s dig in a little more.  If Biden won legitimately, then his victory should stand up to scrutiny, and he should want it to.  He has enough of a lead that a recount will put to bed any accusations of cheating.  And since he wants to be the President of all Americans, he should want to set our minds at ease that this election hasn’t been the biggest hoax in history. 

Consider something else here: if Biden’s win is legit, that makes him the most popular presidential candidate in history.  Let that sink in.  He trounced Obama’s popularity.  Joe Biden.  Gaffer-in-chief.  The man who didn’t campaign.  Who stayed home.  Who couldn’t draw a crowd of flies if he was honey. That Joe Biden.  We are being asked to believe that Joe Biden is the most popular presidential candidate in history. 

Yeah, I didn’t think so. 

If Biden cheated (and I think he did – and not just a little), he either gets away with it or he doesn’t.  And this is what we are up against.  Because, if Biden gets away with it, then that signals the end of our Republic.  We become a third-world country, and no honest candidate ever wins another Presidential election.  The Democrats become the ruling party, and the Republicans get the consolation prize in Congress – maybe. 

But of course, if Biden doesn’t get away with it, Antifa will burn down our cities, and we will likely have the start of a Civil War. Don’t tell me that hasn’t played a role in the massive leap of the stock market. Wall Street generally prefers the non-rioting option.       

Trump has been howling about this sort of cheating since Mitt Romney lost to Obama in 2012. Predictably, the media brands Trump a conspiracy nutjob for his trouble. Which is enough to convince the average American that Trump has been on to something for a while now. In Romney’s case, it was the fact that 59 voting districts in Philadelphia – representing over 19,000 votes in all – voted unanimously for Obama. Not a single vote for any other candidate. When I read PolitiFact’s explanation for this anomaly, I have to smile: “fact-checkers” found only a handful of registered Republicans in those districts, and none of them even knew they were registered as Republicans. Coincident.

Of course, that is possible.  Those few didn’t know the difference between “R” and “D,” and they liked the shape of the R – especially that nifty little tale.  But far more likely, they knew what would happen to them if they admitted to being a Republican.  Saddam Hussein usually received 99% of the vote in Iraq’s “free and fair” elections.  And who wouldn’t vote for him, when the other option is a dirt nap?  Philadelphians might have had a premonition about the consequences of a vote for anyone else but Barak when they were ushered into the polling location by thugs armed with assault rifles.  This isn’t rocket science. 

I think the Romney collapse motivated Trump to enter the fray himself. Pennsylvania was a key state in that election, just as it is now. And Romney decided to be the bigger man and concede the election. That has become the Republican way: we get to be the bigger man for a moment while we concede; after that, the Democrats get to be the bigger man for the next four years.

Meanwhile, We have this growing suspicion that the “R” in Republican no longer stands for a core set of principles, but rather for a posture – “Rolled over.”  The Republican party has been domesticated for about 30 years now – give or take a couple of months.  The elephants are tamed, and now they do tricks.  We all smile politely and applaud while they run through their routines.

And so long as this is what we do, the circus will continue.  But our Democratic counterparts are deadly serious about this business.  They know where the real power lies.  Republicans can have the Congress if they want.  That can be our consolation prize.  Because the President has the power of the bureaucracy.  And our country is now run by unelected government agencies. 

President Trump made an unforgivable mistake – in my opinion, the biggest of his Presidency. When he became President, he did not adequately clear out the State Department and the Justice Department. Obama did. Democratic Presidents routinely do. Republicans don’t. “R” for “Rolled.” 

And on that one, Trump rolled.  Too bad.  As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.  So, here we are with a scandal of all scandals, and very little we can do about it.

If Biden gets away with this, one is left to wonder what can be done in the future.  Democrats have been working on this particular election for many years.  Don’t think they will quit cheating in the future.  Why should they?

This is why I urge you if you care about liberty at all, to stand firm. We don’t have to capitulate. We aren’t required to concede, especially while there is so much suspicion surrounding this election. Our elected representatives draw strength from those who stand behind them. If we collapse now, they will surely collapse. Trump needs to know that you stand with him, that you are willing to absorb the media’s scorn to see this thing through. Please don’t forget that we waited 37 days for the Gore v. Bush election to be settled. Throughout that time, Democrats fought for their man. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, Republicans started begging Trump to capitulate almost from the start.

One meaningful way that we can stand with Trump is by supporting him financially.  Whether he needs the money or not, I cannot say.  A donation to his defense fund sends a message loud and clear: “keep fighting.”